Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-11-07
CONCORD OR DISCORD.
DR.. TALMAGRS ELOQUENT TABERNACLE
DISCOURSE YESTERDAY.
Text Who Laid the Corner Stones Thereof When
the Morning Stars Sang TOgsthsr-The
Universe Complete Cadsncs-Ths
Human Intellect Out Of Tune.
Special 7tieerdm 10 the Register.

BROOKLYN, November 6.-The main
feature in the music of the Brooklyn Tab.
ernacle is the congregational singing. To-
day, after the opening song, in which all
the thousands heartily participated, Pro-
fessOr Browne gave on the organ Scherzo,
opus 6l, by Mendelssohn. The Rev. T.
De Witt Talmage, d. D., expounded a
chapter in the first book of Samuel, where
Saul, possessed of an evil spirit, threw a
iavelin at David, who was playing on the
harp before him, thus showing that the
evil spirit does not like sacred music. The
subject Of the sermon was Concord and
Discord, %and the text was from Job,
chap. xxxviii, V. 6 and 7: who laid the
cornerstone thereof; when the morning
stars sang together" DR.. Talmage said
We have all seen the ceremony at the
laying of the corner stone OF church, asy-
lum or Masonic temple. Into the hollow
of the stone were placed scrolls of history
and important documents to he suggest
i've if, one or two hundred years after,
the building should be destroyed by fire
or torn down. We remember the silver
trowel OF iron hammer that smote the
square piece of granite into sanctity. We
remember some venerable man who pre-
sided, welding the trowel or hammer. We
remember also the music as the choir stood
on the scattered stones and timber of the
building about to be consecrated. The
leaves of the note books futtered in the
ttrt., nd n1 Hu,f NJ
ruStling, and we remember how the bass,
baritone, tenor, contraltO and soprano
voices commingled. They had for many
days been rehearsiyg the special program
me, that it might be worthy OF the corner
stone laying.
In my tsXt the poet OF Uz calls us to a
grander ceremohS-the laying of the
foundation of this great temple of a world.
The corners stone was a block OF light and
the trowel was of celestial crystal. All
about and on the embankments of cloud
stood the angelic chOristers, unrolling
their librcttOs OfOverture, and other worlds
clapped shining symbols while the cere.
mony went on, and God, the architect, by
stroke OF light after stroke OF light, dedi-
Gated this great cathedral of a world, with
mountains for pillars, and sky for frescOed
ceiling, and Towering fields for floors, and
sunrise and midnight aurora for uphol-
stery. "WhO laid the corner stone thereof;
when the morning stars sang together"
The fact il that the whole universe was
COMPLETE CADENCE,
an unbrOken dithyramb musical port
folio. The great sheet of immensity had
been spread out, and written Oh it were
the stars, the smaller of them minims, the
larger of them sustained notes The me-
teOrs marked the staccatO passages, the
whole heavens n gamut, with al sounds,
intOnations and mOdulatiOns, the space
between the worlds a musical interval,
trembling of stellar light quaver, the
thunder base clef, the wind among trees
a treble clef That is the way God made
all things, pert, ct harmony,
But one day harp string snapped in the
great orchestra One day II voice sounded
out of tune One day a disCOrd, harsh and
terrific, grated upon the glorious anti
phone. IL was sin that made the di7sOn.
ancc, and that harsh dIscOrd has been
sounding through the centuries. All the
work of Christians, and philanthropists,
and TeiOrmers of all ages is to stop that
discord and get all things back into the
perfect harmony which was heard at the
laying of the cornerstone, when the morn
iug stars sang together. Before | get
through, if | am divinely helped, will
make il plain that sin is discord and right
eousneGS is harmony.
That things in general are ont oil tune is
as plain as to n musicians ear is the nm
happy clash Of clariOnet and bassoon in an
orchestral rendering.
The worlds health out of tune: Weak
lung and the world in collision, disOrdered
eye and MONDAY light in quarrel, rheu'
matte limb and damp weather in struggle,
neuralgias, and pneumOnIas, and con-
sumptiOns, and epilepsies i'll tlOcks swoop
upon neighbOrhoOds and cities. Where
you find one person with sound throat, and
keen eyesight, and alert ear, and easy res
piration, and regular pulsatOn, and supple
limb, and prime digestion, and steady
nerves, you find hundred who have to be
very careful because this or that, or the
other physical function is disordered.
The human intellect out of tune: The
y
or the memory leaky, or the will weak,
or the temper infammable, and the
well balanced mind exceptiOnable.
Domestic life out Of time: Only
here and there a coDIugal outbreak o!
iucompatibility Of temper through the
divorce courts, or tilial outbreak about a
fathers will through the surrogate's court,
or case of wife-beating or husband poison
ing through the criminal courts, hut thons-
ands of families with June outside and
January within.
Society out OF tune: Labor and capital,
their hands on each Others throat. Spirit
OF caste keeping those down in the social
scale in struggle to get up, and putting
those who are up in anxiety lest they have
to come down. No wonder the old piano
forte of society is all out OF tune, when
hypocrisy, and lying, and subterfuge, and
double dealing, aud sycOphancy, and
charlatanism, and revenge have for six
Thousand years been banging away at the
keys IN I stamping the pedals
On all sides there j. perpetual ship
wreck of harmCnies Nations in discord:
without realizing it so wrong is the feel
ing of nation for nation that the symbols
chosen are fierce and destructive. In this
country, where our skies are full of robins,
and doves, and morning larks, we have
our national symbol, the lerce and filthy
eagle, as immoral bird as can be found
10 all the pathological catalogues. In
Great Britain, where they have lambs, and
fallow dear, their symbol is the merciless
lion. In Russia, where from between her
frozen north and blooming south all kind
ly beasts dwell, they choose the growing
bear; and in the worlds heraldry favor
lite figure is the dragon, which is winged
serpent, ferocioua and deathful. And 81
fond is the world of contention that We
climb ont through the heavens and baptize
one of the other planets with the spirit OF
battle, and call it Mars, after the god OF
war, and we give to the eighth sign of the
zodiac the name of the scorpion, creature
which is chiefly celebrated
FOB ITS DEADLY STING.
Hut after all, these symbols are expressive
of the way nation feels toward nation,
Discord wide as the continent and bridging
the seas. suppose you have noticed how
warmly in love dry goods stores are with
other dry goods stores and how highly
grocerymen think of the sugars of the gro,
carvn,en IN the same block. And in what